At the very beginning of his discussion Professor Nobile poses the question: "Are whites able to teach African American history?" He logically concludes that "I know of no rational argument that prove...

Dear Governor Romer: I am writing at the direction of the governing Council of the American Historical Association, the oldest and largest organization of professional historians in the United States ...

Chris Hables Gray is the eighth annual recipient of the Fellowship in Aerospace History, a program supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The fellowship, administered b...

Professor Nobile's disturbing report of his experience as a white man teaching African American history explicitly affirms that "communication" is at the heart of teaching. His essay is a poignant lam...

As many of our members may be aware, the Association signed a contract in 1990 for a block of 450 rooms at the Parc Fifty Five Hotel for the January 1994 meeting and subsequently learned of an on-goin...

The newly combined National History Education Network/History Teaching Alliance office opened this summer at the University of Tulsa with Christine L. Compston as its first director. Last spring, the ...

To the Editor: As a historian who is trying to write a book about the world in the twentieth century, I found Theodore H. Von Laue article ("Declaration of Interdependence: World History for the Twent...

The recipient of the sixteenth annual J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is Gail S. Terry, Wabash College. The fellowship is offered annually by the Library of Congress and the AHA to ...

Dramatic changes are underway in the electronic communications infrastructure worldwide, especially the Internet and Bitnet systems that link academic computers together. H-Net is an initiative of the...

As an Afrocentrist my concern is not so much could or should a white person reach African American history but rather what "location" the teacher brings to the subject. I would wish that a teacher who...